Parishioners Augusta, CHAP. III. An act to empower the inhabitants of the parish of Augusta, in the county of Augusta, to elect a vestry. I. WHEREAS by an act of assembly, made in the of Augusta, tenth year of his present majesty's reign, intituled An in county of act for dissolving the several vestries therein mentionauthorised ed, the vestry of the parish of Augusta, in the county of Augusta, was dissolved, and a new vestry to be elected on the twentieth day of September, then next following. to elect a bestry. II. And whereas, by reason of the remote situation of the said county, the sheriff thereof had not notice of the said act, so as to cause an election of vestrymen to be made before the time limited had expired, whereby the minister, and other parish creditors, remain unpaid, and must continue so much longer, if a remedy be not speedily provided for the election of a vestry in the said parish: Be it therefore enacted, by the President, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That the freeholders and housekeepers of the said parish of Augusta, shall meet at some convenient time and place, to be appointed and publicly advertised by the sheriff of the said county of Augusta at least one month, before the first day of October next, and then and there elect twelve of the most able and discreet persons, being freeholders and resident in the said parish, for vestrymen, which vestrymen, so elected, having, in the court of the said county of Augusta, taken and subscribed the oaths prescribed by law, and taken and subscribed the oath of abjuration, and repeated and subscribed the test, and also subscribed to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be the vestry of the said parish of Augusta. CHAP. IV. An act for the ease and relief of the people, by paying the burgesses wages in money for this present session of assembly. 1. WHEREAS by one act of assembly, passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of his late majesty king George the second, intituled, An act for the better regulating the payment of the burgesses wages, it is, among other things, enacted, that when any session of assembly should be thereafter held, and upon examination of the treasurer's accounts, it should appear that there are monies sufficient in his hands to discharge all the money debts, together with the burgesses wages, and the salaries and allowances to the respective officers of the general assembly, saving and reserving in the hands of the treasurer, over and above the said allowances, a balance of fifteen hundred pounds at least, that then every burgess, elected and serving for any county or corporation within this dominion, should be paid out of the public money, the sum of ten shillings for each day he should serve in the house of burgesses, with such further allowances, and under such restrictions and regulations, as in the said act is at large declared. Il. And whereas it appears there is not money sufficient in the treasurer's hands to pay the burgesses wages for this present session of assembly, leaving a balance of fifteen hundred pounds, according to the di-. rections of the said act: Nevertheless, as the payment of the said wages in money will be a great ease and relief to the inhabitants of this colony, by lessening the levy by poll, Be it therefore enacted, by the President, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing this act, the burgesses wages and allowances, for the present session of assem bly, shall be paid by the treasurer, out of the public money in his hands, according to the directions and regulations of the said recited act. 03 VOL. 8. Burgesses wages paya. ble in mo ney. GEORGII III. Regis, Magnæ, Britanniæ, Franciæ, et vernor. At a General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol, Lord Dun in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the tenth more Goday of February, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, in the twelfth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the third, by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c. being the first ses: sion of this present General Assembly. CHAP. I. An act to continue and amend the act, intituled An act to continue and amend the act, intituled An act for amending the staple of tobacco, and for preventing frauds in his majes‐ ty's customs. I. WHEREAS the act of the general assembly, made in the fifth year of his present majesty's reign, in- Recital. tituled An act for amending the staple of tobacco, and preventing frauds in his majesty's customs, wach was continued and amended by an act, made in the seventh year of his said majesty's reign, and further continued by one other act, made in the tenth year of his said majesty's reign, will expire on the first day of Octo ber, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, and it is necessary and convenient that the same should be farther continued and amended: Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assem+ Several in- bly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That from and after the tenth day of October next, the inspections of tobacco at Hampton and Denbigh, at Littlepage's and Waddy's, and at Morton's and Gibson's, respectively, shail be, and they are hereby disunited, and established as separate inspections. spections disunited, and others revived. II. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the warehouses, for the inspection of tobac co, at Totuskey, in the county of Richmond, and at Waller's, in the county of King William, and Walkerton, in the county of King and Queen, under one inspection, which were discontinued by the said act of the tenth year of his present majesty's reign, shall be, and they are hereby revived and re-established, with the same salaries (except as is herein after excepted) to the respective inspectors, as were allowed and appointed by the said recited acts of the fifth and seventh years Salaries to of his present majesty's reign; and there shall be paid certain in @pectors. to each of the inspectors appointed to attend and attending at Royston's sixty pounds, at Colchester fifty pounds, at Hunting creek forty-five pounds, at the Brick house thirty pounds, at Cave's thirty pounds, at Acquia sixty pounds, at Dixon's, in the town of Falmouth, fifty pounds, at Robert Bolling's sixty pounds, at Bollingbroke sixty pounds, at Blandford sixty pounds, at Littlepage's thirty pounds, at Waddy's twenty pounds, and at Totuskey thirty pounds per an num. III. And whereas, by an act of assembly, passed in the third year of his present majesty's reign, for farther continuing and amending the act for amending the staple of tobacco, and preventing frauds in his majesty's customs, the court of the county of Fairfax was ordered to cause warehouses to be erected, for the reception of tobacco, on the lots six, twenty-nine, and forty-two, the property of Benjamin Grayson, in the town of Colchester; but before such warehouses were built, the said lots six and forty-two, from the inconvenience of their situation, were found to be improper for that purpose; and therefore the warehouses, directed by the said act, were built upon the lots number |